Electric vehicles are seemingly the most important discussion point right now as there is a lot of effort being made for the electrification and it has been spurred on by the impending regulations of the government all over the world and they are aimed at reduction of dependency on the fossil fuels. However in what is a body blow to the movement, the data shows that the electric vehicle sales may not be impacting the gasoline consumption. The United States Electric vehicles sales is higher than ever despite the shortages of supply chain and a frequent markup of dealership. But according to a recent estimate, it has been reported that the consumption of gasoline only reduced by 0.54 % last year.
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The United States plug-in vehicles had driven close to 70 billion miles in total ever since the year 2010. This has displaced the use of 2.5 billion gallons of gasoline and close to 19 million tons of the greenhouse gasses. It was estimated that about 370 million gallons of gasoline were consumed in the year 2021. For the year, the plug-in vehicles saved only about 690 million gallons of gasoline which is only about a couple of days of consumption and the reduction of emission was very less.
This raises questions on the electric vehicle environmental impact. The biggest growth was in the plug-in sales which has doubled from the last year to 634,000 from the 308,000 vehicles it was at earlier.
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It was assumed that plug-in drivers behave a lot like their gasoline-driven counterparts but applied the PHEV factor to it which adds a basis of battery size and mileage to it.
The reduction due to the coronavirus pandemic were also added to it and they were consequently adjusted. The impact of coronavirus on electric vehicles was thus nullified by the estimates.